Monthly Archives: March 2009
Guide to Australian Internet
How the internet works according to Senator Conroy and his Internet Filter. Internet filter flow chart courtesy of (well, OK, I stole it. Hope they don’t mind too much?) crikey.com.au
Filed under atheism, internet censorship, internet filter
Is Your Pilot Religious?
Then you better hope they don’t have an emergency. On 6 August 2005 a twin-engined Tuninter ATR-72 turboprop aeroplane was flying from the Italian city of Bari to the Tunisian island of Djerba , when it ran out of fuel. … Continue reading
No Clean Feed
More news of the Governments crazy Internet Censorship / Clean Feed debacle. As you are all probably aware by now wikileaks.org leaked a copy of the Australian Governments and ACMAs URL blacklist. It turns out, according to Stilgherrian writing in … Continue reading
Filed under censorship, Clean Feed, internet censorship, internet filter
I Want to Shop and Gamble
For the first time in NSW punters will be allowed to bet on Good Friday following the decision by Tabcorp to be open for gambling on this once sacrosanct day. from abc.net.au/news Not surprisingly religious groups are furious. Father Brian … Continue reading
Who is Craig?
There has been a viral email going around with photographs of notes stuck to lamp posts from someone called Craig. They are rather odd and I’m not sure whether Craig is just very lonely, some sort of genius artist or … Continue reading
Cheap Grab for Ratings, Titillation or Religion Baiting?
Home and Away is set to divide audiences when it introduces a lesbian romance this month.Is this just a cheap grab for ratings (“jumping the shark”), a way to encourage a few young men to watch for a bit of … Continue reading
Filed under atheism, gay and lesbian, GLBT, god, religion
The Smoking Typewriter
I have been awarded another blog award, from the Green-Eyed Momster herself. This one is called the “Premios Dardo” Award, or more appropriately the “Smoking Typewriter” Award (though I think that should be the Smoking Keyboard award in this modern … Continue reading
Quotes from the Good Book
The good book in this case being “The Portable Atheist“. Some of the following quotes have been paraphrased or adapted by me. All religions were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and … Continue reading
Filed under atheism
Carnival of the Godless #112
The current edition of Carnival of the Godless # 112 is up at State of Protest, please drop by the carnival and check out some of the great articles. State of Protest has done another nice job of hosting the … Continue reading
Filed under atheism, Carnival of the Godless
